Dear Friends,

We are thrilled to invite your organization to participate in this year's Peace Day Global Broadcast - Building Peace Through Sustainability.  Held annually on September 21st, the United Nations International Day of Peace, the Peace Day Global Broadcast is a 24 Hour Internet, TV, and Radio event that showcases the efforts of organizations, like your own, working to preserve the planet and improve the living conditions of people worldwide through the achievement of the UN Millennium Development Goals.

The Peace Day Global Brodcast is organized by www.PeaceDay.TV; a collaboration between Culture of Peace Initiaitve, Unity Foundation, Peace Portal, and ShockRa Entertainment.

Established by U.N. resolution in 1982,  "Peace Day" has grown to include millions of people around the world who participate in all kinds of events, both large and small. Since its inception, the International Day of Peace has been a focal point for Peace-building organizations to educate and advocate on behalf of the solutions they offer to the world community.

In the past few years, it’s been a day of global ceasefire, having tremendous impact on the lives of millions of children who’ve been immunized, had food delivered, and received educational supplies. Increasingly, Peace Day is being adopted as a day to unite the world community in addressing the most urgent issues of our time: climate change, the environment, hunger & poverty, social justice, & human rights.

The Peace Day Broadcast is a means to further connect individuals with groups and educate people around the world.

Your participation will help us achieve these goals. There are several different levels at which you may choose to participate that include; providing content about your organization's work, allowing live feeds from the events you may be planning, promoting the event, sponsorship, or sharing the www.PeaceDay.TV community website.

GOALS

SOLUTIONS

Trees For Life

 

One Laptop Per Child

PlayPump Water Solutions

Rocket Stove

We invite you join the movement, contribute, and promote the important work of your organization. 

Your kind consideration of our request is greatly appreciated.  Please feel free to contact us for more information or to discuss how you can participate in the "PEACE DAY" 2010 Global Internet Broadcast.

Sincerely,

- Stephen Fantl - stephen@peaceday.tv  541-306-6467

A human being is part of the whole, called by us, the universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical-delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. The true value of a human being is determined by the measure and sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive.

---Albert Einstein, 1954

CRYING EARTH

I am the last of my kind, a dying breed, alone but for the sound of my own heartbeat.

                                                          I was so young, now old before my time. Because I was

So naïve, I let others walk upon me, now my fate is

To be left behind.

 

Gave life as I did, with best intentions at hand, but

Foolishly I left my fate, in the corrupted hands of man.

 

And take from me they did, never giving back to me.

The kindness I had given them. Now so weak, a way

To make them understand I seek, that I will not

Sustain them forever, if I die, we all die together.

 

Every resource they have taken, assuming I will

Replenish, they are mistaken.

 

Drilling holes in me, my wounds they do not see,

They believe the blood from my depths will

Somehow set them free.

 

They chop me down,

They carve me out,

They cant hear my screams,

Their machines are too loud.

 

Then down into the depths of my seas, now no unexplored

Ocean floor, no undisturbed creature, they destroy as they

Please.

 

And although I am so grateful, that there are some who try

To protect me. There are not enough, of the ones that love,

They shall perish with the rest of us.

 

Someday it will be to late, when my heartbeat finally fades,

And beats no more, no more places to explore, will they

Share my fate, or abandon me for the depths of space.

 

Will they someday realize there was a better way, that to scorch my surface,

With their wars of fear and hate.

Will they even care, that I nurtured them thru their birth. Or will they leave

Me lonely like children do, forever the CRYING EARTH.

                                       

                                                                                     -Fackerell 2008

Banning Plastic Bags in India

http://11thhouraction.com/node/3525

This action was posted this weekend on the 11th Hour Action site from India. "Youth’s are dynamically gathered and empowered by JKT to protest against the USE OF PLASTIC BAGS in and around the city, and next action is to stop water pollution that is happened mindlessly around the state polluted by the industries based cheap on the river banks." Location:
241/231 old chennimalai andavar Road Sasthri Nagar Erode , TAMILNADU, 638002 India

Just created the Three Counties Action Group here at 11th Hour.

I was surprised to find only 2 other UK groups currently running so decided to see if a third choice might galvanise a little more participation from these shores.

Please do take a lopok. Membership is open to all from anywhere so please accept a hearty welcome.

"Our beautiful world is facing many crises.... It is not a time to pretend everything´s good." The Dalai Lama

WOW! Bill McKibben's 350.org International Day of Climate Action was a huge success. According to their website people in 181 countries came together for the most widespread day of environmental action in the planet's history. At over 5200 events around the world, people gathered to call for strong action and bold leadership on the climate crisis.

I have just spent the last hour marveling over all the phenomenal pictures and videos that people sent in from all over the world. Check them out HERE.

There were several events planned in my area of Phoenix, Arizona like climbing up a mountain with Arizona State University students and bike rides. My husband and I met up on Thursday, October 22nd with some local members of 1Sky to take a 350.org photo in Old Town Scottsdale by the big LOVE sculpture in the park to signify our love of home, community, and our planet. Here is our picture.

We were in the park for about an hour taking photos and of course people walking by would question us about what we were doing. I had printed up small cards with what 350.org is all about and what it means. So when asked I would just pull out a card from my pocket and give it to them.

After the photos were taken some of the group went on for a bike ride, but my husband and I went to the Scottsdale ArtWalk where the local art galleries open their doors to the public and show off their work. This particular ArtWalk was a Taste of Art ArtWalk where you could sample food and wine as you stroll and look at art. So we opted out of the long bike ride in order to eat, drink wine and look at art which is more to our liking. (lol) I kept my 350.org gear on while at the ArtWalk and of course I was asked numerous times what does 350 mean, so I would whip out one of those printed cards and hand it to them. I had printed up 24 cards and only came home with three.

When you are in love with your home, and I don't mean your house, but where you live, for me it's the glorious Sonoran Desert, then you are always happy to support any organization that wants to protect it and keep it pristine, beautiful and healthy.

I wanted to communicate to the 11th Hour Action community about a current assault our website is undergoing from bloggers who are trying to sell everything from internet services, to sexual dysfunction medication, to who knows what. We are getting hundreds of fake registrations every day and it's clogging up our system. We have had to block all new registrations pending approval and the going is slow because it's hard to wade through hundreds of registrations that are only there so someone can post their ad for real estate or printers or whatever.   I want to tell anyone who thinks this is a site to post your ads, that it is not.  We will delete your account and delete your blog the moment we find it.  So if you are trying to post ads, or register to post ads, please don't.  This site is for the discussion of creating a sustainable world and for learning how to take steps to green your home, neighborhood, community and more.  So I ask if you are an blogger who is advertising something, please post somewhere else; for those who want to blog about what's going on in the enviornmental movement, or about what's going on in your life that is an attempt to go green, you are welcome.

 

 

We are producing a new film on urban farms in Detroit by filmmaker Mark MacInnis called Urban Roots. Detroit has the most vacant lots in the United States and has lost half it's population due to the implosion of car manufacturing.  Check out the trailer, it's a good primer for the transformation from the old industrial society to a new, sustainable future that strengthens community. If you are interested in following the story, sign up with us, it's going to be an inspirational journey.

 http://www.treemedia.com/treemedia.com/Urban_Roots.html

 

I am a member of the Global Coherence Initiative which is a science-based initiative to unite millions of people in heart-focused care and intention to shift global consciousness from instability and discord to balance, cooperation and enduring peace.

The Global Coherence Initiative is designed to help individuals and groups work together, synchronistically and strategically to increase the impact of their efforts to create positive global change.

Together we will:

1) Increase personal coherence for the benefit of ourselves and the planet
2) Help shift the planetary consciousness baseline from self-centeredness to wholeness care
3) Increase connection and social harmony
4) Empower our ability to navigate through global changes with less stress and more ease
5) Empower environmental responsibility and stewardship of the planet

This project has been initiated because millions of people sense that this is an extraordinary time; that a paradigm shift of human consciousness is now under way; that we are at the crossroads of change and must move toward the healing of ourselves and our planet. Many people are feeling a strong desire to help change our present and future conditions and are looking for ways to use their heart, spirit-aligned wisdom and care to make a meaningful difference.

The Global Coherence Initiative is one of many care and compassion initiatives taking place on the planet. Each year, an increasing number of groups and online communities are radiating compassion and care to the planet in these times of need. We and others feel that these collective heart-based initiatives, rather than being a trend, represent the proactive consciousness platform of the future, in which individuals and communities take responsibility for shaping a new world by increasing love, care and compassion for the global whole.

I recently volunteered to participate in a 6-month GCI Interconnectedness Study on the relationship between human consciousness, Earth’s energetic activity and other planetary factors. (I have a lot of free time on my hands these days, lol) Anyway, I do receive e-mail alerts and I thought I would pass this one on to the members of this community. This alert is about the upcoming International Day of Peace.

Envisioning the Peaceful World You Want to Live In
"For the International Day of Peace, September 21, align with the spirit of all who are sending prayers, meditations and positive intentions for world peace."

Creation starts with thought, desire and imagination….the same as desiring a new house, job, etc. Thoughts, desires and imagination create an energetic blueprint for what we want; then taking action steps towards our goal helps to create the building blocks for intentions to manifest.

In honor of International Peace Day, let’s take five minutes a day (or what’s convenient for you) to envision the world as we would want it to be: A world that respects individual human rights and authentic communication, has balanced, conscious leadership and compassionate governing systems worldwide, values the preservation of resources, has love and respect for animals and environmental balance. A world that provides food, pure water, shelter and world peace for all. Create your own additions and remember to enrich your vision with genuine feelings from your heart’s desire so as to give it life. Close with a moment of gratitude and the request that whatever manifests only be the highest best for the whole."  

UPDATE:  HeartMath in honor of International Peace Day, Sept. 21st, created a beautiful video called At the Heart of Peace. You can watch it HERE.